Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

№74, (2012)

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On tenderness

“More often than not, people, especially men, are ashamed of their tenderness. They mistake it for weakness,” says Borys Buriak. His exhibition called “Tenderness” is an...
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An optimist against the background of a defeat

The president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili is treated in different ways. Some call him an authoritarian leader, while others praise him for reforms he conducted in Georgia, which was literally...
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Ukrainians in India join the action “A memorial candle in the window”

NEW DELHI – This year, Ukrainians in India joined the action “Light a memorial candle” (for the first time at the level of diplomatic representation) and honored victims of the...
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About Canadian factor of Ukraine’s European integration

On the last weekend of November Kyiv Mohyla Academy hosted a conference “Model of Ukraine” titled “Different Roads to the Rule of Law.” One of the initiators and organizers...
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Ukrainian avant-garde

Ivan Lypkivsky was one of the last in the cohort of Mykhailo Boichuk’s repressed and murdered students. He was born on September 14, 1892, into the family of Metropolitan of the Ukrainian...
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This day in history

1661: Lviv University is founded, later to be named for Ivan Franko. 1868: Envoys from 17 countries sign St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under...
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Boris KHLEBNIKOV: “A person is shaped by emotional adventures”

At the age of 30 Boris Khlebnikov burst into the world moviemaking community and became its full-fledged member with the movie he shot jointly with Aleksei Popogrebsky, Koktebel. Not only did the...
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America’s perilous pivot

MADRID – The Pacific or the Middle East? For the United States, that is now the primary strategic question. The violence in Gaza, coming as President Barack Obama was meeting Asia’s...
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Duska is an embodiment of tenderness

Duska was thrown out into the street where it hid under a car, trying to stay away from all the frightening things out there. But as soon as a human being walked past the car, the cat would shiver...
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Paisius Velichkovsky. Returning home

Exhibition hall of the Spiritual and Cultural Center was opened in the lower church of the Holy Dormition Cathedral in Poltava on November 27. The hall serves as place for displaying icons from the...
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“I want to go beyond unlimited capacity”

Viktoria Poliova works in symphonic, choral, and chamber instrumental genres. Since the late 1990s her music stylistically gravitated to the so-called sacred minimalism. A special place in her work...
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20 people killed in two explosions in Syria

Yesterday two explosions struck the eastern Damascus district of Jaramana, 10 kilometers southeast of the Syrian capital. Twenty people at the least were killed as a result of a series of terrorist...
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Literature in numbers

The awarding ceremony of “Golden Writers of Ukraine” took place in Fairmont hotel in Kyiv on November 24. This is the new initiative of the spouses Yurii and Tetiana Lohush, who have...
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Under Lysenko’s auspices

For ten days, Kyiv was invaded by music. Qualifying rounds of the Fourth Mykola Lysenko International Music Contest were held at four main concert hall of the Ukrainian capital. This contest became...
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A step towards big science

Yesterday an exhibit of school students’ inventions and projects opened at the Kyiv Palace of Children and Youth. The exhibit, titled “The Future of Ukraine,” represents 21...

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